Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
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Matthew 5:7-11
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5:9 This beatitude probably targeted zealots—Jewish revolutionaries who advocated the overthrow of Roman domination through violent resistance. The Messiah’s Kingdom would be established by other means. • those who work for peace: Jesus is not calling for pacifism per se, but rather a different kind of activism. • Peace is the absence of enmity and the presence of God’s salvation (Lev 26:6; 1 Sam 16:4-5; Isa 9:5-6; Zech 8:16; Eph 2:14; Col 1:20). Jesus’ disciples are to work for justice, righteousness, reconciliation, and mercy as the effects of God’s salvation through Christ (Matt 5:43-47; Luke 10:5-6).
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Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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